LECTURE: Some Potentially Interesting Social Network and Statistical Puzzles

Event Date: 
Tuesday, 16 October, 2012 - 13:00
Location: 
IBMI
Lecturer: 
Professor. Dr. Patrick Doreian

The next lecture in the biostatističnega center will be Tuesday, 10/16/2012, at 13:00 pm on IBMI. The lecture will be Professor. Dr. Patrick Doreian from the Faculty of Social Sciences (University) and the University of Pittsbourgh (USA).

There are some clusters of That puzzles are interesting and important. Taken together, They have the potential To Be Very Important. The Following puzzle clusters are discussed: i) inequality and football systems (When measuring inequality classical assumptions are abandoned and modeling predatory relations), ii) modeling social network evolution When actor (mis) perceptions are included iii) Addressing Methodological Problems for Systems of interdependent Actors (T autocorrelation and spatial autocorrelation Issues) and extending this Tues include multiple types of Actors iv) building dynamic structural models of social control systems Including a social network autocorrelation component, and v) coupling network structures Tues network contexts to design network structures for Achieving outcomes. You are invited!

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